Stephen Colbert starts tonight as the host of The Late Show. I, for one, am excited to watch him play himself rather than his alter ego, the arch-conservative host of his previous late-night TV show The Colbert Report. What will he do when he’s freed from his bombastic, know-nothing, truthiness-loving persona?
He’s already our most important public intellectual: We’ve already seen Colbert authentically and publicly engage with his religion and beliefs and wrestle with the existence of evil in the world, despite the constraints of his “character.” And even though he’s not Jewish, he’s better for the Jews than Jon Stewart.
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